• Fails to highlight your classroom expertise
• Gets filtered out by ATS keywords
• Provides no value to hiring committees

• Replace the objective with a 2‑sentence professional summary
• Mention grade level, subject area, and years of experience
• Add a key achievement or impact metric

Objective: Seeking a challenging position in education.

Professional Summary: Dedicated 5‑year elementary teacher specializing in literacy instruction, who increased reading proficiency scores by 18% through data‑driven interventions.

• Shows what you did, not the results you delivered
• Makes your resume blend with dozens of others
• Neglects measurable impact that recruiters love

• Start each bullet with an action verb
• Quantify results (e.g., test scores, enrollment growth)
• Focus on outcomes like student engagement or curriculum innovation

- Taught 5th‑grade math classes. - Prepared lesson plans. - Graded assignments.

- Delivered differentiated math instruction to 28 students, raising average test scores by 12%. - Designed project‑based lessons aligned with state standards, boosting student engagement scores to 94%. - Implemented a streamlined grading rubric, reducing grading time by 30%.

• Modern schools prioritize tech‑savvy educators
• ATS may miss critical skill keywords
• Hiring managers may assume outdated practices

• Add a dedicated "Technical Skills" or "Curriculum Development" subsection
• List tools (Google Classroom, SMART Board, LMS) and methods (project‑based learning)
• Tie each skill to a concrete classroom example

Skills: Classroom management, lesson planning.

Technical & Curriculum Skills: Google Classroom (managed 150+ assignments), SMART Board integration (enhanced interactive lessons), Project‑Based Learning design (led 3 interdisciplinary units), Data‑Driven Assessment (used PowerSchool analytics).

• Reduces readability for recruiters
• Can cause parsing errors in ATS
• Makes key information hard to locate

• Use a clean, single‑column layout with consistent fonts and spacing
• Replace paragraphs with bullet points (max 2 lines each)
• Standardize headings (e.g., "Professional Experience")

Experience: I taught middle school science for three years. I created labs, managed classroom behavior, and collaborated with colleagues to improve the curriculum.

Professional Experience Middle School Science Teacher, XYZ Middle School (08/2020 – 06/2023) - Designed and executed hands‑on labs for 120 students, increasing lab safety compliance to 100%. - Implemented classroom management system that reduced disciplinary referrals by 40%. - Co‑led curriculum redesign, integrating NGSS standards and boosting science proficiency by 15%.